Again, I'm sorry but I have NO ONE to help me. I've prayed and prayed and I don't know what to do. I will probably get ridiculed for this but I literally don't have a choice. I need advice . My son and only child is deeply into drugs and alcohol is on a fast downward spiral . I HAVE TO SAVE HIM. What can I do?
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Give this a read.
https://www.aa.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/en_bigbook_chapt8.pdf
It's directed toward wives of alcoholics. I was in a similar situation, except I was the son and my mother was going completely crazy trying to "help" me. What she thought was helping was actually making it worse. The problem was that I didn't think I needed help because I didn't think I had a problem. That was something I had to figure out on my own and nothing in the world could have helped me until I saw the problem for myself. I eventually did, after a period of distancing myself from everyone who was trying to "help" me, basically they said fuck me, and I said fuck them,,, That only lasted a few months before I started causing my own problems and didn't have anyone left to blame, and that's when I did what I had to do to get help and clean up my act. When I first got sober and read "the big book" I remember thinking if my mother had read this chapter and took the advice I might have ended up in rehab sooner.
Try to find an ALANON meeting and just listen in, that may be what helps you out the most.